A Brief Vacation

Overview

Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica

Top cast

Florinda Bolkan

Clara Mataro

Renato Salvatori

Franco Mataro, the husband

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Daniel Quenaud

Luigi, Clara's lover

José María Prada

Ciranni

Teresa Gimpera

Gina

Hugo Blanco

The brother in law

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Julia Peña

Edvige

Miranda Campa

Nurse Guidotti

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Angela Cardile

The redhead

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Anna Carena

The mother in law

Monica Guerritore

Maria

Maria Mizar

Nurse Garin

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Alessandro Romanazzi

The son

Adriana Asti

Scanziani

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Enrico Baroni

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Edda Conti

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Lia Giovannella

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Franca Mazzoni

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Giampaolo Rossi

Luigi Antonio Guerra

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